Trinity Home Board

The Trinity Home Board is responsible for the ongoing stewardship of funds connected to the historic Trinity Church Home. Today, the Home Board continues the mission of the Trinity Church Home by supporting ministries that serve aging and vulnerable members of our parish and the wider community.

The Home Board also considers applications for grants to organizations, with a primary focus on serving the elderly: Grant Application Form.

Home Board Leadership

President: Rich Lamere

Treasurer: Bob Werner

Co-secretaries: Peggy Atherton, Kate Walton

Background

“The Trinity Church Home is created for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in the city of New Haven, a refuge for the poor and friendless members of Trinity Parish, and such others as the Board of Managers may think are entitled to its benefits.”

In 1862, with these words and this mission Trinity Church Home was incorporated by an official act of the Connecticut Assembly. For 150 years since then the organization, governed by the Trinity Home Board, has fulfilled its mission by providing refuge for “the poor and friendless” in New Haven. The Trinity Church Home was originally created to support elderly women at a time when there was no Social Security safety net and when women generally did not work. In the 1960s the last of a series of homes was sold and the money from the sale was put into a trust fund which today supports the elder ministry of Trinity Church.